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" I sense that the road to Heaven is paved with dashed hopes. "

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" How many times have I heard people say, 'I became very ill a couple of years ago; it got very serious, and I look back and give thanks for how it changed me and the truth I found.' "

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" Have I got the right to experiment with my child's life? "

" I think we live in delusional times, whether it's with a great ability to totally distract ourselves with technology, or with speed and the velocity of life. "

" I never really understood who the Magi were as a child. What is a Magi? Not a word I would use, but a magpie I could understand. "

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" Sanity is surely not about normality in the statistical sense: it is about an eternal and natural idea of the healthy personality - which indeed may be a rare achievement. "

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" An education system suits some more than others. It can lead you out into life or lead you on a wild goose chase. It can help to make you miserable, or dull and nasty and insipid, or profoundly stupid in the special way that 'brainy' people can be. "

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